· Private foundation
The Edward L Rispone Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $524k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MICHAEL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,124,100 |
| REDEMPTORIST ST GERARD ELEMENTARY | $220,000 |
| MERCEDARIAN SISTERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT | $121,400 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $81,000 |
| ST GEORGE CHURCH | $52,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY RADIO | $27,500 |
| NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL FUND | $25,000 |
| THE PARABLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST THOMAS MOORE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MISSION HEARTS | $10,000 |
| ST JEAN VIANNEY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +222% · 92% of their budget
- WCWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY2× · 2017–2019 · $201k · revenue +48%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION2× · 2021–2022 · $99k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- STSTAND TOGETHER INCone grant, 2018 · $200k
- OLOUR LADY OF THE ISLEone grant, 2022 · $130k
- LHLIFE HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule o - mission statement for part i line 1 covers this item
Inspired by the vision of st. francis and in the tradition of the roman catholic church, we extend the healing ministry of jesus christ to god's people, especially those most in need. we call forth all who serve in this healthcare…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
We seek and facilitate gifts to provide charitable healthcare programs and services that support the mission of our lady of lourdes regional medical center, inc. and are not funded by traditional resources.
The hospital's purpose is to provide care for the ill, injured, or disabled persons & to provide for research, education, & the enhancement of health of those in southeast louisiana.
To provide for the care of the ill, injured, or disabled persons and to provide for research, education, and the enhancement of those in the community.
To help build access to a high quality educational experience in a nurturing environment for families who otherwise could not afford catholic school tuition
Logos Academy of New Orleans is an ecumenical community of believers coming together with a common goal of classically educating our children in a loving Christian community.
To provide for the care of the ill, injured, or disabled persons and to provide for the research, education, and the enhancement of health of those in northeast louisiana.
Action for life promotes, upholds, and supports efforts to protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death through education, advocacy, and prayer as well as by supporting traditional family values.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
The purpose and mission of the louisiana perinatal justice alliance is to improve the reproductive care and health outcomes for all louisiana families, to promote evidence-based maternal and infant care, to advocate for parenting families,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University and the most unlike its peers is The Stabiler Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 140 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SISTER DULCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION HEART INC ↗
- Who funds GARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LILLIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR RISING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bryan Foundation · Ronnie & Gwen Briggs Foundation · The Ej and Marjory B Ourso Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Edward L Rispone Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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